Name a few albums which helped determine your musical tastes


How about a short list of albums that shaped your listening from early on in your life?

Not just albums that became favorites (though they could be now). Let's call them historical turning points for you that shaped you as a listener, now.

Me:
  • Quadrophenia or Who's Next
  • Sgt Peppers Beatles
  • Floyd, Wish you were here
  • Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick
  • Metheny, Offramp
  • Glenn Gould, Goldberg variations
  • Joni Mitchell, Court and Spark
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Bb king
clarence brown
muddy waters
johnny winter
etta james
Some country...waylon, willie
captain & tenile

ratt
twisted sister
riot
tank
raven
Motörhead 
spartan warrior
crossfire
samson

mercyful fate
bathory
venom
napalm death
satan jokers
celtic frost

the list goes on and on and on and......
Kate Bush - Kick Inside
Graham Parker - Stick to Me
Any Dylan after 1966
Roxy Music Avalon
Willy DeVille - Miracle
GNR Use Your Illusion 1&2
Clapton - Slowhand
Van Morrison - Wavelength
Willie Nile - Willie Nile
The Band - The Last Waltz
REM - Automatic for the People
Concert for Bangledesh
Against Me - New Wave
Social Distortion - Sex Love Rock and Roll
Elvis Costello - Get Happy
Warren Zevon - Sentimental Hygene
Bruce Cockburn - World of Wonders

Kind of Blue
Lust for Life
Allman Brothers at Filmore East
Dark Side of the Moon
Swiss Movement
Absolutely Free
Highway 61 
Being 64 most of my musical taste came from the early 1970's.
Allman Brothers.
Marshall Tucker Band.
Steely Dan. 

Yes, Fragile
Genesis, Foxtrot
King Crimson, Court of the Crimson King
Miles Davis, Kind Of Blue
Dave Brubeck, Time Out
The Allman Brothers, Live At the Filmore
The Doors, First album
Led Zeppelin, II
Blood, Sweat and Tears, First album
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon,
Aaron Copeland, Appalachian Spring
Dmitry Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5
and all the countless stuff my dad exposed me to. He listened to everything (except Country).